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I work in textiles, plastics, and digital drawings to explore the relationship of femininity to melancholia, familial dis/comfort, and empathy. From colorfully distraught portraits and ambiguously gendered plush creatures to meticulous abstract plastic collages, the work addresses feelings of overwhelm, discontent, and awkwardness. While the bright colors and cheerful designs encourage viewers to find joy in the work, the abject quality of the creatures and characters, and the distorted images wrought in melted plastic, point to a more sinister truth. Elusive and illusory comfort is central to my exploration of the ways in which femininity is forced onto bodies and subjectivities: whereby something that feels comforting, nostalgic, and even humorous, can be the source of deep melancholia and discontent. My practice addresses this simultaneous disgust of femininity and the desire to find comfort within it.
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